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Sid Valley Biodiversity Group

Sid Valley Biodiversity Group

Promoting & Enhancing The Natural Beauty of the Sid Valley

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    • Sid Valley Biodiversity Group submission to the draft East Devon Local Plan
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    • Mapping the River Sid
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    • West Country Rivers League Table 2022.
    • Sid Valley Water Quality Monitoring Points
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      • Upstream Extension Of Sid Advisory Visit
    • Sid Vale Living Rivers Project 2013-14
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      • Lower Knapp Pond History
      • Wasps: a tale without a sting.
      • Lesser Celandine: Botanical name Ficaria verna
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Placating the Sid

On July 24, 2023 By Stefan Drew
  • River Sid

Valley residents are well aware of the effects of heavy rain when water and soil runoff of the land and rivers rise in the blink of an eye.  On 20th July Simon Browning, our catchment advisor, gave a zoom presentation explaining how he hadRead More

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West Country Rivers League Table 2022.

On July 18, 2023 By Stefan Drew
  • Survey

West Country Rivers League Table. How Does Your River Compare? The overall score for the catchment is based on a year’s data, collected at all sites in the Sid waterbody. It is calculated from the observations and water quality results attained during a WestcountryRead More

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Plant ID Walk

On July 13, 2023 By Stefan Drew
  • Wildflowers

Our next plant ID walk will be a gentle walk starting at Weston Car Park, Grammar Lane, Weston. The plan is to start at Weston car park, which is along eastern side of Weston Comb. Then we’ll follow the gentle path above the publicRead More

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Firebeacon Grazing Project – plant survey volunteers needed

On July 13, 2023 By Stefan Drew
  • Wildflowers

In 2018/19 the RSPB led a consultation on the future management of Firebeacon Hill near Sidmouth. The site has three compartments: The management plan that emerged from this process aims to create linked areas of lowland heath and wood pasture. This will increase biodiversityRead More

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Upstream Extension Of Sid Advisory Visit

On February 13, 2023 By Stefan Drew
  • River Sid

This report is the output of a site visit undertaken 29 November, 2022 by Bruno Vincent of the Wild Trout Trust, along the River Sid in Devon, at the request of the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group. It forms an extension to a previous AdvisoryRead More

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Hedgehog Survey Map

On February 21, 2022 By Stefan Drew
  • Animals
  • Hedgehogs

Hedgehogs are in decline nationally. But we’ve had a good number of local sightings as this map shows.  In our Sidford garden we get hedgehogs feeding most nights right up to Christmas and beyond. Now it’s February I’ve not seen one for about aRead More

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RSPB Garden Watch 2021 – A Local Perspective

On January 9, 2022 By Stefan Drew
  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Survey

  THE BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH 2021 – A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE ED DOLPHIN FOR THE SID VALLEY BIODIVERSITY GROUP 1. INTRODUCTION The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch (BGB) is one of the largest citizen science projects in the world.  For the last 40 years, thousands ofRead More

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Sid Valley Herbaceous Flower Survey 2021, July Update

On August 18, 2021 By Ed Dolphin
  • Biodiversity
  • Survey
  • Wildflowers

This is the July 2021  update to the year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants being carried out by volunteers with the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group.  Reports from previous months can be found on the Group’s website https://sidvalleybiodiversity.org/ and all of the group’s recordsRead More

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SID VALLEY HERBACEOUS FLOWER SURVEY 2021, JUNE UPDATE

On July 10, 2021 By Ed Dolphin
  • Herbaceous survey

For those who have not read our previous monthly reports, the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group is carrying out a year-long survey of the valley’s herbaceous plants recording what is in flower each month. This is a citizen scientist project with volunteers from the groupRead More

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